Enrico Dalla Valle and Gabriele Piraino will face off in the 2nd round of the Palermo Challenger for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 8:00 pm on Center Court. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Enrico Dalla Valle who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Enrico Dalla Valle is the pick to win this match.
Enrico Dalla Valle -> 1.41
Gabriele Piraino -> 2.64
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Prediction and head to head Enrico Dalla Valle vs. Gabriele Piraino
This will be the 3rd time that Enrico Dalla Valle and Gabriele Piraino play each other. The head to head is 2-0 for Dalla Valle (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on clay.
The last time that they squared off, Dalla Valle won 7-5 6-1 in the qualifications in the San Marino Challenger back in 2023.
Enrico Dalla Valle
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 49-28 | 0-0 | 44-26 | 5-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2025 | 21-24 | 6-9 | 15-15 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 34-31 | 7-8 | 26-21 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 48-27 | 8-6 | 33-17 | 4-3 | 0-0 | 3-1 |
| 2022 | 16-14 | 0-0 | 16-14 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 319, Dalla Valle got to the 2nd round after defeating Luca Potenza 6-1 7-5.
In the 1st round, Dalla Valle had a good straight sets win against Potenza (6-1 7-5). During the match, Dalla Valle scored 64 points vs Potenza’s 46. Enrico was quite aggressive to blast 24 winners.
Talking about the service games, Dalla Valle struck 5 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Enrico Dalla Valle lost the serve twice and he saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Dalla Valle put 57% of his first serves in, winning 75% (24/32) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (12/24) on the 2nd serve. Dalla Valle broke Potenza 5 times after converting 71% of his break points (5/7).
Dalla Valle has good win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 56% of his matches (279-216). 44-26 on clay in 2026. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this competition, Dalla Valle has an overall 192-144 win-loss record in the last years on clay.
The Italian has a compiled 49-28 win-loss record in 2026, 44-26 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Palermo Challenger
Dalla Valle has never competed in this tournament before.
Gabriele Piraino
29 - 22win/loss
392
321
WLLWLLLWWW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 29-22 | 4-5 | 23-16 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2025 | 43-21 | 0-1 | 43-20 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 33-27 | 5-6 | 28-21 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 27-31 | 4-3 | 23-28 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 37-26 | 2-2 | 35-24 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 392, Gabriele reached the 2nd round after beating Jay Clarke 6-3 6-1.
In the 1st round, Piraino had a good straight sets win against Clarke (6-3 6-1). During the match Piraino scored 72 points vs Clarke’s 50. Gabriele was pretty aggressive to blast 26 winners.
About the serving games, Piraino wasn’t able to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he committed only 2 double faults. Gabriele Piraino lost the serve twice and he saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Piraino put 65% of his first serves in, winning 70% (26/37) of the points behind his 1st serve and 35% (7/20) on the 2nd serve. Piraino broke Clarke 6 times after converting 43% of his break points (6/14).
His best result of the current season was winning the title the Plovdiv 2 Challenger where he overcame Petr Nesterov in the final 6-1 7-6(5).
The Italian has an overall 29-22 win-loss record in 2026, 23-16 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Dalla Valle | Piraino |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 19 | 16 |
| Pts | 64-46 | 72-50 |
| Total Points | 110 | 122 |
| Winners | 24 | 26 |
| %Winners | 38% | 36% |
Both Dalla Valle and Piraino played 1 match. Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Dalla Valle and Piraino have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Dalla Valle played 3 games more than Piraino. The Italian scored 24 winners (38% of the total points). On the other side, Piraino bagged 26 winners (36%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Dalla Valle | Piraino |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 5 | 0 |
| Avg per match | 5 | 0 |
| 1st in | 32/56 | 37/57 |
| %1st in | 57% | 65% |
| 1st pts | 24/32 | 26/37 |
| %1st pts | 75% | 70% |
| 2nd pts | 12/24 | 7/20 |
| %2nd pts | 50% | 35% |
Dalla Valle made 5 aces . Piraino didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Dalla Valle won 75% points on his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 50% of the points. On the other side, Piraino won 70% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 35% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Dalla Valle | Piraino |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 6 |
| Converted | 5/7 | 6/14 |
| % Converted | 71% | 43% |
| Conceded | 3 | 6 |
| Saved | 1 | 4 |
| % Saved | 33% | 67% |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 |
The Italian broke his opponent 5 times with a 71% conversion rate. The Italian surrendered his serve twice and he saved 33% of the break points that he conceded. Piraino broke his opponent 6 times with a 43% conversion rate. The Italian conceded his serve twice and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded.
| Dalla Valle | |||
| R1 Potenza |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 7-5 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 19 | |
| pts | 64-46 | 64-46 | |
| Total points | 110 | 110 | |
| Winners | 24 | 24 | |
| %Winners | 38% | 38% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 5 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 32/56 | 32/56 | |
| % 1st in | 57% | 57% | |
| 1st pts | 24/32 | 24/32 | |
| % 1st pts | 75% | 75% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/24 | 12/24 | |
| % 2nd pts | 50% | 50% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/7 | 5/7 | |
| Converted % | 71% | 71% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 1/3 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 33% | 33% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
| Piraino | |||
| R1 Clarke |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 | |
| pts | 72-50 | 72-50 | |
| Total points | 122 | 122 | |
| Winners | 26 | 26 | |
| %Winners | 36% | 36% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 0 | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 37/57 | 37/57 | |
| % 1st in | 65% | 65% | |
| 1st pts | 26/37 | 26/37 | |
| % 1st pts | 70% | 70% | |
| 2nd pts | 7/20 | 7/20 | |
| % 2nd pts | 35% | 35% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 6 | 6 | |
| Converted | 6/14 | 6/14 | |
| Converted % | 43% | 43% | |
| Conceded | 6 | 6 | |
| Saved | 4/6 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 67% | 67% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
Head 2 Head
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